thinned
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Borrowing costs have risen sharply in advanced economies, public debt is at historic highs and fiscal cushions thinned by a barrage of crises, said Silvana Tenreyro, chief economist at the IMF.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
In just 30 years, the heavily thinned forest had not only recovered all the carbon removed during harvesting, but had also gained enough additional carbon to equal the increase seen in the unharvested controls.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
But it’s especially bad for big agricultural states, where margins were already thinned due to tariffs and fertilizer prices.
From Slate ● Sep. 26, 2026
To avert future calamities, the forest outside Bordeaux must be thinned and its fire breaks widened, said Arthur Guérin-Turcq, a Sorbonne University geographer whose family cultivates pines near Le Porge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
The bushes thinned and the sounding bracken grew rarely in the the swampy earth, so that they could move three times as fast.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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